This is a preview version, and only one chapter will be posted. The full novel is still being written. My main story, "My Cool Childhood Friend Has Had a Crush on Me for Years", is currently updating. If you're interested, please add it to your reading list and let it build up a few chapters.
(The other novel about the Grand Princess that's currently updating won't be abandoned either. I'll finish that one first. "Bows".)
Reposted blurb below
Quiet, refined, tsundere cat top x bright, sunny, carefree puppy bottom
Chen Wannong loves Si Binghe, and has loved her for so, so many years.
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Si Binghe, a student at Xiang Normal University preparing for the teacher recruitment exam, was studying for the CET-6 in the library, completely frazzled. While taking a break, she spotted a post on the campus marketplace about a found phone. Inside the phone case on the back was a photo of Si Binghe from three years ago.
Si Binghe, browsing the campus message board in the library and catching up on gossip: Huh?
(When the gossip you're reading turns out to be about you.)
Si Binghe waited for the owner with a kindhearted junior who had found the phone and turned it in.
The owner turned out to be Chen Wannong.
Fate had brought the two of them together again.
Years later, with Chen Wannong in her arms, Si Binghe would look back on that day and marvel at how wonderfully the phone had been lost, while remembering to thank the honest junior who had returned it.
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In the damp, misty rain of Jiangnan, Chen Wannong met Si Binghe for the first time.
Love rippled across the water's surface. Chen Wannong struggled against it even as she sank in.
Click!
Chen Wannong raised her phone and took a photo of Si Binghe for the school's required holiday-life assignment.
In the sunlight, she carefully adjusted the angle, so that her shadow stood beside Si Binghe's.
It was the only photo of the two of them together from their youth.
For the long years that followed, this photo held all the words Chen Wannong had kept to herself.
Chen Wannong loves Si Binghe, and has loved her for so, so many years.
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During the summer vacation of their second year of high school, Si Binghe met Chen Wannong.
Si Binghe had never seen anyone so beautiful, so refined she looked like a porcelain doll.
Her mother told her that Chen Wannong would be staying with them for a while.
For Si Binghe, that stretch of time was like a juicy tomato.
One big bite, and it was sweet.
But when she thought back on it, it tasted so sour.
Chen Wannong was picky about food. She wouldn't eat offal or scallions.
She was picky about sleep, too. She was afraid to sleep alone during thunderstorms, and when she climbed into Si Binghe's bed, she complained that the blanket wasn't soft enough.
Chen Wannong really did look like someone who'd be difficult to keep happy.
It would take Si Binghe many years to discover Chen Wannong's secret.
When they met again, she said to the cowardly Chen Wannong, who was about to run away,
"Chen Wannong, how many more years are you going to keep lying to yourself?"
* Romance-focused, all-female world
* The initial plan is for a sweet-and-sour tomato flavor: sweet at first, sour afterward, then sweet, sweet, sweet, with a little sourness mixed in. A sweet romance.
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